The Magdalene Laundries-Joni Mitchell

[ti:The Magdalene Laundries (LP Ve] [ar:Joni Mitchell] [al:Turbulent Indigo] [by:] [offset:0] [00:23.74]I was an unmarried girl [00:25.38] [00:27.39]Id just turned twenty-seven [00:29.21] [00:31.29]When they sent me to the sisters [00:33.81] [00:34.31]For the way men looked at me [00:36.64] [00:39.53]Branded as a jezebel [00:41.30] [00:41.80]I knew I was not bound for heaven [00:45.01] [00:46.01]Id be cast in shame [00:47.84]Into the magdalene laundries [00:51.74] [00:59.60]Most girls come here pregnant [01:01.49] [01:03.57]Some by their own fathers [01:05.83] [01:08.60]Bridget got that belly [01:09.82]By her parish priest [01:12.09] [01:15.17]Were trying to get things white as snow [01:17.69]All of us woe-begotten-daughters [01:21.40] [01:22.03]In the streaming stains [01:23.92]Of the magdalene laundries [01:27.95] [01:35.55]Prostitutes and destitutes [01:37.89] [01:39.27]And temptresses like me [01:41.28] [01:43.43]Fallen women [01:44.75]Sentenced into dreamless drudgery [01:48.33] [01:51.49]Why do they call this heartless place [01:54.13]Our lady of charity [01:55.84] [01:57.79]Oh charity [01:59.11] [02:07.23]These bloodless brides of jesus [02:09.44]If they had just once glimpsed their groom [02:13.72]Then theyd know and theyd drop the stones [02:16.86]Concealed behind their rosaries [02:19.68] [02:23.21]They wilt the grass they walk upon [02:25.20] [02:25.71]They leech the light out of a room [02:28.15] [02:29.79]Theyd like to drive us down the drain [02:31.80]At the magdalene laundries [02:35.66] [02:43.52]Peg oconnell died today [02:45.51] [02:46.83]She was a cheeky girl [02:48.34]A flirt [02:49.04]They just stuffed her in a hole [02:50.83] [02:51.64]Surely to God you'd think at least some bells should ring [02:55.93] [02:59.25]One day I'm going to die here too [03:02.04]And they'll plant me in the dirt [03:04.25] [03:07.38]Like some lame bulb [03:08.58]That never blooms come any spring [03:12.57] [03:14.27]Not any spring [03:15.26] [03:41.77]No not any spring [03:43.35] [03:50.27]Not any spring